Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan

On May 3, during his visit to Iraqi Kurdistan, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Prime Minister of Regional Government of Kurdish autonomous region Nechirvan Barzani.

Aide to Tatarstan President on international issues Radik Gimatdinov, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ruslan Kabirov, Director General of OAO “Tatneft” Nail Maganov, Director General of OAO “KAMAZ” Sergey Kogogin, Director General of OAO “TAIF” Albert Shigabutdinov, and Director for marketing and sales of OAO “Kazan helicopters” Valery Pashko took part in the meeting.

Nechirvan Barzani welcomed Rustam Minnikhanov and members of the delegation. Rustam Minnikhanov told about geographic location and economic development of the republic. Members of the delegation told about their enterprises and opportunities they can offer to Iraqi Kurdistan.

Nechirvan Barzani was especially interested in Tatarstan experience in the sphere of oil processing. He also noted that KAMAZ vehicles are popular in Iraq, because once 3.5 thousand trucks were supplied to Iraq under the programme “Oil in exchange for food”. Therefore, KAMAZ company can enter the market again starting from Kurdistan. “We are interested in cooperation with your oil-processing and petrochemical enterprises, in your helicopters and trucks. Now the main issue is how to continue cooperation,” Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan said.

Rustam Minnikhanov suggested organizing a working group to study opportunities of cooperation in details, and invited Nechirvan Barzani to visit Tatarstan.